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God is man idealized.

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Amiri Baraka
Age: 20 †
Born: 1934
Born: October 7
Died: 1914
Died: January 9
Critic
Essayist
Journalist
Music Critic
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Imamu Amear Baraka
LeRoi Jones
Everett LeRoi Jones
Men
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The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.
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If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
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Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
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The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of the most complex and complicated ideas about the world imaginable.
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I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.
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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.
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All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other
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The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.
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There is no depth to education without art.
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Hope is delicate suffering.
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The future is always here in the past
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Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
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I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.
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When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people. May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings. And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.
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James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.
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Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
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An evil word it is/ This Love.
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In America, black is a country.
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Most American white men are trained to be fags. For this reason it is no wonder their faces are weak and blank.
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You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
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